1. GLVCYPHILA. 211 



6 . Culmen O-S-Q-iJ iudi, wing 3-2-3-3, tail 2-9, tarsus 0-9. 



$. „ 0-8 „ „ 2-9-3-0, „ 2-65, „ 0-85. 



Young birds are dark brown above, streaked with buffy white ; 

 crown of head like the back ; throat duU yellow ; sides of neck, 

 fore neck, and upper breast mottled with brown and whitish, the 

 central parts of the featliers being whitish ; under surface of wings 

 and rest of undcrparts as in the adult. 



Immature birds still retain the yellowish throat after they have 

 acquired the rich fulvous colour on the crown. 



Hub. Australia and Tasmania. 



a,h. c? 2 ad. sk. South Australia. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



c,d. [ cJ J ad. sk. South Australia. Gould Collection. 



e. c? ad. ; /. Juv. sk. West Australia. Gould Collection. 



g- Ad. sk. N. S. Wales. Gould Collection. 



h, i. Ad. sk. N. S. Wales. F.D.GodmanandO.Salvin, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 



k, I. Ad. sk. N. S. Wales. Linnean Societv [P.]. 



m. 5 ad. ; n. d Tasmania. J. Gould, Esq. "[C]. 



imm. sk. 



0, p. Ad. sk. Tasmania. Ronald Guun, Esq. [P.]. 



2. GlycypMla albifrons. 



Glyciphila albifrons, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 100 ; id. B. Austr. iv. 

 pi. 29 ; id. Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 497 ; Vab. 31>i.s. Hein. i. p. 117 ; 

 Bp. C. A. i. p. 393; Gray, Gen. ^. i. p. 11; Eeickenb. Mero- 

 pinee, no. 269, pi. 487. tigs. 3442-43 ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 155, 

 no. 2003 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. iV. S. W, ii. p. 188. 



Adult. Forehead, lores, a narrow ring round the eye, and a 

 narrow line running from the angle of the lower mandible white ; 

 crown of the head black, each feather slightly margined with 

 whitish ; ear-coverts silvery blackish grey, behind which is an irre- 

 gular line of white ; all the upper surface brown, irregularly margined 

 with white, producing a mottled appearance ; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts rufous-brown ; wings and tail brown, the primaries mar- 

 gined externally with yellowish green ; chin, throat, and fore neck 

 brownish black, some of the feathers of the throat with small white 

 tips ; under wing-coverts and inner margin of quills fulvous ; breast 

 and abdomen white, striped with blackish brown on the flanks ; 

 " irides dark brown, bill black ; feet blackish brown " {Gould). Cul- 

 men 0-8 inch, wing 3-2, tail 3, tarsus 0'8. 



The feiixdc is like the male in plumage, but smaller in size. 



JIab. Greater portion of Australia. 



a,b.[cS 21 !id. sk. South Australia. Sir G. Grey [P.l 

 c, d. Ad. sk. South Australia, J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 



e. Ad. sk. South Australia. F. D. Godman and O. Salvin, 



Esqi-s. [P.]. 



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